Look at things differently

Brida was complaining about not being able to do a piece of homework, because every time she started, it went wrong. She was about fourteen years then.

“Perhaps the times when it goes wrong are teaching you something”, said her father. But Brida was sure that she’d taken the wrong path and that there was no way to put things right.

Her father took her by the hand and led her into the living room, where her grandmother used to watch television. There was a large, antique grandfather clock, which has stopped years before because it could no longer be repaired.

“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong, my dear”, said her father, looking at the clock. “Even a stopped clock is right twice a day”.

Now, isn’t that a great story ??? Just loved it and have been pondering over what the story is teaching, from yesterday.

Do you play games – the simple card ones in your computer ??? The Free Cell ??? OK, because Free Cell is my favourite game of them all. 🙂

Now, when you open the game for the first time for the day, the cards are always easily placed and you are certain to win that game.

You can call it as “Beginner’s Luck”, as Paulo tells in The Alchemist.

I also think that the computer is motivating you to go for another game. Only when you win a game, you are motivated to play more.

The second game might be little bit hard and the third quite difficult to win. But that doesn’t mean that the game cannot be won. The column of cards, which we started clearing is wrong, that’s all. Now, just get back to the beginning of the game, start with a different column and do it differently than the first time, then success is surely ours.

So, if something fails in life, don’t just get into the loophole – “Nothing works for me, and I always lose.”

Its just the method or the way taken is not right for you. Just try it totally different the next time, and see success kissing you. 🙂 🙂 🙂

That works if you are the patient sorts. I have the tendency to demolish a whole lot of stuff to get to the bottom of “why does this shit not work”. Then I start again. End up having to clear debris too 😦

yeha so true.. if we give up then we are never going to succeed , so try try til you win..

i use to play PCMAN a lot, i mean the old one when it came on 5and half inch floppy drive he hehe in those days 🙂 the good old days …

ALso if you are not winning then its a good idea to STOP, relax , think it may not be for you… you may need to change tactics or change what you are wanting to do .. IT helps if you take a STEP back and then work for it …

Read Witch of portobello by Paulo Coelho, I follow his blog and find him very insightful Uma. Things changed for me since I began reading him. Sometimes the smallest of things make a huge difference ,
lovely post .

Nice! 😀 I don’t read Coelho. I did read Veronika decides to die and alchemist and eleven minutes. Loved the quoted portion 🙂 Somehow, I seem to miss out on the obvious insightful statements in books when I am reading. Only when others point them out, the make sense to me! 🙂